FOURTEEN The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, February 16, 1978
County seniors9 Craftsmen invited to Pendleton festival
BMCC magazine
taking applications basic skills tested
"Runes" a Blue Mountain
Community College literary
magazine is now accepting
entries for its 1978 edition.
Co-editors Kandy Hubbard
and Mary Forrester an
nounced five categories open
to BMCC students and resi
dents of Morrow and Umatilla
Counties. The categories are:
photography, poetry, graphics
(drawings and prints), fiction
and non-fiction.
A $10 award will be given to
Day care
equipment
to be sold
When the Heppner Child
Development Center perma
nently shut down operations
last December, it was left with
a huge variety of equipment
which ,wiU be offered for sale
this Saturday, Feb. 18, at the
4-H Annex Building at the
fairgrounds from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m.
Families with children
won't want to miss this
'clearance' sale which will
include cribs, high chairs,
children's books, coat racks, a
slide, play cubicles, child
sized tables and chairs, cots,
play pens and a myriad of
related items. A dishwasher,
washer and dryer will also be
offered for sale.
Equipment donated to the
Center will not be sold but
persons who made donations
should plan to pick up their
items on Saturday or make
arrangements for pick up by
calling Dawn Stuchell.
the first place winner in each
category. Faculty members of
BMCC will judge the entries.
Deadline for entries is
March 31. They can be sent
to: "Runes", BMCC Journal
ism Department, P.O. Box 100
or hand delivered to room P16
at BMCC on Tuesdays and
Thursdays between 11 a.m.
and noon.
All entries must include the
contributor's name and ad
dress. A stamped, self
addressed envelope should be
enclosed so entries can be
returned or they can be picked
up at P16. "Runes" will not be
responsible for entries not
picked up by the end of spring
term.
No color or three-dimensional
entries will be judged if
submitted. All entries will be
photographed and printed in
black and white.
Anyone of high school age
and older in the two-county
area is eligible to enter.
For more information con
tact Kandy Hubbard, Mary
Forrester or advisor Jim
Burgess at BMCC.
Morrow County high school seniors are currently
undergoing a new series of tests, designed to gauge their
competencies in several basic skill areas. The tests are part
of new requirements set up by the State of Oregon to make
high school. diplomas more meaningful.
Verification of minimum competencies in the areas of
reading, writing, speaking, listening, computing and
analyzing are now required by the state. Each school district
is responsible for devising its own tests to determine these
competencies, which represent a student's ability to apply
basic knowledge in practical situations.
An example of one of the tests being used in the three
Morrow County High schools is the writing of an appropriate
response to a job advertisement. The student is expected to
use standard English, acceptable letter form and correct
spelling, punctuation and sentence structure.
In other district competency tests a student must give an
oral presentation, compute miles per gallon of gasoline,
determine simple interest rates, balance a checkbook and
answer factual questions after reading a newspaper article.
English and personal finance teachers administering the
tests report that senior students in the county are generally
passing their minimum competency tests on their first trial,
though a few have needed some extra study and help in order
to pass the second time around.
In addition to a verification of a graduating senior's basic
skills, the new graduation standards continue the
longstanding requirements for four years of full-time
attendance and 22 units of designated credits.
Anyone with questions concerning the new graduation
requirements is encouraged to contact the school counselor
or principal in his respective community.
Snowmobilers hold play day
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South Jones Prairie was the
site of a "Playday" Sunday,
Jan. 29, sponsored by the
4-Corners Snowmobile Club.
Contestants and spectators
were warmed by a bonfire and
a batch of chili prepared by
Dorothy Scott. Hot dogs and
drinks were furnished by the
club and the weather cooper
ated with clear sunny skies.
Seven events were held
during the playday, beginning
with the Poker . Run at
4-Corners. Mary Coff man's
straight topped the 64 entries
in the event to take first place,
Diana Dollarhide's three aces
was good for second, Bud
Wynn took third with three
kings, Joe Halvorsen placed
fourth with three jacks and
Don Stroeber finished fifth
with three eights.
In the men's obstacle timed
course, Don Stroeber's 36
second run was the fastest
among the 23 entries. Ron
Palmateer and Butch Laugh
lin tied for second with runs of
37 seconds and Simon Winters
was fourth in 37.2
seconds.
Diana Ball placed first
among four entrants in the
women's timed race followed
by Jan Stroeber and Judy
Laughlin.
Shelly Stroeber was the
fastest of eight entrants in the
12 year and under timed event
with Duane Dollarhide finish
ing second and Duane Ball
taking third.
In the 12 year and older
junior competition, Andy
Samples topped the field of six
followed by Shane Laughlin
and Linda Englert.
Linda Sinerius and Wayne
Wilson crossed the line first in
the sled race. In the final
event of the day, Simon
Winter's run of 51 seconds was
the fastest among 34 entries in
the men's speed long course.
Bud Englert was second in
52.1 and Pat Cutsforth took
third in 55.0.
The club extends thanks to
entertainment chairman Bill
Scott and his volunteers for a
successful playday.
Last member of pioneer
Quaid family passes
by Justine Weatherford
Katherine Quaid Hofen who was born in a log cabin on
the Quaid Ranch on Balm Fork, Dec. 20, 1877, was buried in
Portland last month. Her death, January 17, 1978, ended the
history of a pioneer family that was very important in
Heppner's early years. Only a street name here remains to
indicate the family's existence.
In 1844 Thomas Quaid, Katherine's father, came with
five brothers and their parents from Dublin, Ireland to the
U.S. They located in Ohio, but later four of the brothers came
to Oregon.
Before Heppner was founded, Tom, Mike, Pat and Billy
Quaid lived where the Ralph Beamer Ranch is today. They
were sheepmen. Records show that Mike Quaid, who died in
a horse accident, was the first person buried in Heppner's
cemetery. Only Tom married. He and his wife Pauline,
daughter of Oregon pioneer Harvey Smith, had just one child,
the daughter Katie (Mrs. William C. Hofen).
Tom Quaid helped to plat the town of Heppner.
"The 1891 promoters of the Palace Hotel that was built in
Heppner (where Wayne's Diesel and Auto Repair is today)
were Thomas Quaid, J.W. Morrow, C.A. Rhea, Henry
Blackman and J.B. Natter all men possessed with
enterprise and the capital necessary to carry out any such
undertaking to a successful issue. The magnificent
three-story brick building on Morrow Corner is as fine a
hostelry as is to be found in any other town twice the size in
the Inland Empire," states the 1902 History of Morrow and
Umatilla Counties.
In 1905 Tom Quaid retired and moved to Portland where
he purchased a half -block at 12th and Salmon Streets and a
home that was occupied by his wife and their daughter for
many years after his death in 1916.
When Mrs. Tom Quaid died in 1955 she was 97 years old.
Their daughter, Katie, passed her 100th birthday last
December "amid greetings from President Carter and
Senator Mark Hatfield."
Katie had attended parochial school and business college
in The Dalles. She married in 1910 and moved to California
with her husband where he served as mayor of the town of
Larkspur. She returned to Portland as a widow. She spent her
last seven years in a convalescent home there.
DR. E. EC. SCHAFFITZ
OPTOMETRIST
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FEB. 16 THRU FEB. 26
The W. T. Rawleigh Company
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THE LEXINGTON CITY DUMP
WILL BE OPEN THE 1st C
3rd SATURDAY OF EACH
MOUTH FROM 9 A.M.
THRU 12:00 NOON
THE CHARGES ARE
$P FOR WHITE GOODS
$5M FOR CAR OR TRUCK
CODIES
Craftsmen from eastern
Oregon and southeastern
Washington are invited and
encouraged to demonstrate,
display and sell their work at
the Pendleton Arts Festival
scheduled for May 5-7 in the
Pendleton Armory.
The festival, co-sponsored
by the Pendleton Arts Council,
the American Association of.
University Women and the
City Recreation Department,
includes the performing arts,
display of paintings by both
amateur and professional ar
tists as well as craftsmen
demonstrating , and selling
their work.
This year marks the fifth
year of he festival, which
promises to be the best ever.
Last year, 22 craftsmen and 68
painters had their work on
display in front of more than
2,500 persons.
A change in the format for
this year's festival will be the
addition of juried crafts
booths and all work submitted
must be entirely designed and
crafted by the exhibitor.
Craftsmen interested in
showing or selling at the
festival should submit three
photographs or slides repre
sentive of their work. The
entries should be made before
March 1 and those accepted
will be notified by March 10. A
$25 entry fee, for those
accepted, should be remitted
no later than April 1.
Categories this year include
textiles, pottery, wood work
ing, glass, jewelry, leather
and graphic art.
Applications or further in
formation can be obtained by i
writing the Arts Council of
Pendleton, Box 573, Pendle- '
ton, Oregon, O7S01. ;
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lone Lions to host
Carty Reservoir tour
The lone Lions Club will sponsor a tour of the Carty
Reservoir on Tuesday, Mar. 21. The bus will leave lone at 9
a.m. and will pick up passengers at Lexington between 9:15
and 9:30. From there the tour will cover agricultural sites
including Simtag and Lamb-Weston. At noon there will be a
no-host luncheon at the Nomad Restaurant, Boardman. In
the afternoon they will tour the PGE site and the Port of
Morrow.
Heppner residents can sign up for the tour at the Heppner
Extension office. Those going from Lexington and lone can
sign up at Del's Market, Lexington, and the Bank of Eastern
Oregon, lone.
All persons interested in taking the tour should sign up by
March 17, so arrangements can be made for transportation.
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